Price Slashers

by Chisto Healy, Michael R. Collins, Erica Summers

Three novellas, each answering the same prompt:

Melissa comes running out of a grocery store covered in blood…

The Survivor
A detective meets his match in this extreme body horror novella when body parts start appearing on the streets of New York. A serial killer is on the loose, can the detective reveal their identity before more lives are lost?

Nothing is Hidden, Only Unseen
The staff at Price Slashers face otherworldly creatures in this extreme cosmic novella, where nothing is as it seems. Exploring a deadly dimension, the staff are faced with their own fears. Are their fears really what’s killing them, though, or is something far more sinister at play?

Those Baby Blues
In this extreme psychological novella, a new mother suffers from a recently-diagnosed mental illness, convinced her newborn is evil. As she and her sister shop for groceries, she uncovers hidden messages around the store. Is it all in her mind, or must she put an end to things once and for all?

Genres: Horror

315 pages, Paperback

First published March 15, 2024

About the author

Chisto started writing as a child and it was always his biggest passion, though he is also a musician and artist. When he was forced to quarantine in March 2020 due to the pandemic, he decided to focus on his writing and write full-time and has since had 100 stories accepted to be published, many of which are already out there. He hopes this is only the beginning...

Reviews

[Mort · Rating 4 out of 5]

Three authors came together with a concept for this book that got me curious:
Each should write a story with the same starting point – a bloody woman comes out of the supermarket – and take it anywhere they wanted to go from there. The only thing they had to include is a bisexual element. The end product could be best described as, well, the INXS of the year.

If you are frowning right now, I don’t blame you. I just got out of bed in the middle of the night to write this review, because “MYSTIFY ME” was on a loop in my head since this thought has sprung into my brain. For those who might not know, INXS was an Australian band that was huge in the 80s and 90s, until the lead singer died from sexual asphyxiation.
The thing that made them so special, in my opinion, was their diversity. Their music brought together many different styles and influences, even though they were commonly referred to as a rock band. But they had elements of pop, blues and maybe even a little bit of jazz, if you listened carefully enough.
And this book brings together three very different voices who took three very different directions with this basic idea. While it is a horror book, there are elements that makes it feel (at times) like there are touches of thriller, police procedural, bizarro and extreme.

So, let’s get this out of the way, because there are bound to be opinions raised about this: Is this book woke? And I’ll be damned if I know, because I keep my nose out of the drama and bullshit, so I am not 100% clear on the full definition of the word.
Here’s the thing: My firm belief is that people can be real assholes regardless of sex, race, religion, politics, sexual preference, height, weight, wealth or personal taste. Despite what we see on social media daily, I also believe that people have the right to not only be different than I am, but to have different opinions.
Life is difficult enough as it is, so allow others the same freedom you expect, and judge them on merit. I do not have a dog in this fight, so I simply don’t care.

Back to the book, I am going to give my criticism first, before I point out the good stuff.
I did not really connect with one of the three stories. It was not a bad story by any means, it was just a little beyond my personal taste. Also, in one of the stories the bisexual angle felt a little forced. What I mean by that is that it didn’t contribute anything to the story itself and it would have made no difference to the end result whether it was included or not.

But…I really liked this book. The ideas were well executed and at least one of the stories should appeal to most of the horror readers. And, as the one author stated, maybe it will introduce someone to a new writer they would not have normally read.

Healy: I have to read more by this author, especially if he likes writing about serial killers.
Collins: What a wild imagination and creativity he must have; I don’t think I will ever be able to see the world as he does.
Summers: I don’t say this a lot, but I was introduced to a condition I’ve never heard of before, and this story made me curious.

Recommended to horror fans who likes versatility and good story telling.

4 Stars.

[Stitching Ghost · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the kind of multi-author work I can really get behind, the stories are long enough and there aren't too many of them so they really get the space to shine and don't get muddled. The 3 authors assembled here also have quite distinctive literary voices and they managed to deliver impressively diverse stories using the same prompt.

[✮ osanna aoki ✮ · Rating 4 out of 5]

Price Slashers was an incredibly fun and unique work to read. Authors Chisto Healy, Michael R. Collins, and Erica Summers team up to create a book where each story is based off of a singular prompt.

The Prompt: Melissa comes running out of a grocery store covered in blood…

And from this simple description— three terrifically terrifying stories are spun from the minds of these authors.

Healy’s story, The Survivor, is a whodunnit/murder-mystery horror take on an active serial killer. At times filled with dark comedy— this story follows two cops placed on the case. Not only does the reader journey into the everyday tasks of catching a killer, but you learn about the integral parts of the officers, too. It’s a fulfilling story that could easily be a novella length piece on its own.

Collins’ Nothing is Hidden, Only Unseen is a fever dream. Chasms of different dimensions, hallways that never end, monsters from the deepest parts of your mind, and confronting one’s past in a terrifying way— this cosmic horror story is sure to keep your head spinning and on your toes.

And Erica Summers’ Those Baby Blues is a splatter-punk trip to supermarket hell. Summers’ dives deep into mental health and motherhood — using postpartum psychosis as the fuel for this very edgy, and extremely violent short story.

In Price Slashers, there’s a story for every horror lover. Whether you are into mystery, cosmic horror, or gore galore— it’s here. Three distinctive voices come together to create a well-executed attempt at a writing prompt. I’m sure this was just as fun for the authors as it was for the reader. I highly recommend this book to anyone that enjoys something different, or someone who enjoys interchangeable writing. ★ ★ ★ ★ stars to this read!

[Diana | Indie Book Addict · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you’re anything like me, you hate going to the grocery store. I seriously despise going. Healy, Collins, and Summers have brought several new reasons to dread going shopping. Prices aren’t the only thing being slashed.


The Survivor by Chisto Healy
Healy doesn’t ease the reader into this story. It’s crazy from the start and only grows more violent. The focus is on finding a serial killer, so we follow Paulie, Sal, and Sanchez through this bloody mystery. I was quite surprised to find out who it was. The characters were enjoyable, and Paulie ended up being my favorite. Poor guy has been through it.


Nothing is Hidden, Only Unseen by Michael R. Collins
Being at work is bad enough, but then imagine some otherworldly creatures making it all worse. Collins takes the reader on a trippy ride where nothing is real (or is it?) and only strange possibilities exist.


Those Baby Blues by Erica Summers
This story is heavy on trigger warnings and for good reason. Summers definitely knows how to spice up a trip to the grocery store. It’s gruesome and highly disturbing. Fans of extreme horror are in for a gory and repulsive ride. I’m still thinking about this one. Don’t skip over the author’s note. Some informative stuff in there. Summers is making her way in extreme horror, and I’m here for it.


Do not miss this one. I really enjoyed the concept and the stories. I hope there will be more like this in the future.

[Kate Victoria RescueandReading · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love the concept of three authors taking a prompt and creating three different tales of terror!

“Melissa comes running out of a grocery store covered in blood…”

Each author’s creation was so distinctive: a cop procedural with a serial killer, a cosmic reality glitch, and a seriously disturbed new mother.

I liked “The Survivor”, but in general felt “meh” about the police perspective throughout it.

“Nothing Is Hidden, Only Unseen” was very creepy, but too surreal for me to follow at times.

“Those Baby Blues” was my favourite by far; it was gross and extremely chilling. I kept being completely shocked by each event that occurred.

I would love to see more stories written in this fashion, it was definitely cool to see each person’s take on how one sentence can expand into a full scale horror story.

[Bookaholic__Reviews · Rating 5 out of 5]

One prompt:
Melissa comes running out of a grocery store covered in blood...
Three VERY different stories. Honestly, this collection of shorts blew me away. It's amazing to see how the authors all created unique stories out of the same prompt. And they all go in very different directions!

Story 1: The Survivor by Christo Healy

A missing woman comes running from a grocery store covered in blood. The investigating officers quickly locate a hidden torture room, but something doesn't quite seem right about the room or the woman.

"Life was like books. Each book was their own story, but there was the underlying story that continued throughout, and that was you."

One thing that I really enjoyed about this story aside from the story itself was the queer representation. One of the main characters is a bi-sexual male, and it really highlights how the male experience is often a negative one. I appreciate Healy for writing realistic and relatable queer characters.


Story 2: Nothing is hidden by Michael Collins
Triggers: domestic abuse, gaslighting, gore, and some body horror.

This story was bizarre, and honestly, I wasn't always 100 % sure what the heck was going on! This story was insane, definitely creepy with just enough gore. One thing I know for certain is that this is a grocery store I never want to find myself in at closing time!

“You are your own victim,” he said, same as last time."


Story 3:Those baby blues by Erica summers
Triggers:Gore/Violence/Abuse, Bodily Fluids, Profanity, & Infanticide.

This particular story is hard to read, and it's not something I'll ever forget. Lord knows I'll never look at a frozen lasagna the same, either. Post Partem pyschosis is real, and horrible things happen because of it, and that is more terrifying than this story could ever be.


Overall, it was a great collection, and I look forward to reading more titles from these authors.

[Horror Reads · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a set of three novellas by three different authors. All three stories are based on the same prompt, a woman named Melissa running out of the doors of a grocery store named Price Slashers covered in blood.

From this starting premise, we get three different but terrifying tales.

Chisto starts out with a bang. His story centers around a serial killer but with a big twist. As usual, his novella has a dark sense of humor at times but, make no mistake, it will freak you out!

Michael's story is cosmic horror-esque. People trapped in a place between our reality and another. And in this space, there are monsters. These creatures want to render flesh from bone but how do you escape a place where every hallway leads to even more monstrositys? You'll have to read to see if that's possible.

Erica has the extreme splatterpunk covered with her highly disturbing story about a new mother who has lost touch with reality. And, yes, this tale is bloody, gruesome, and delightfully disgusting. The trigger warnings are real for this one. It's an extreme look at motherhood and mental illness.

No matter what kind of horror you prefer, you'll find a novella in here to love. If you're like me, you'll love all three. Different writing styles, different takes on the single prompt, but all fantastic. I highly recommend this book.

[Michael · Rating 1 out of 5]

I stumbled across this one while browsing through the horror titles on Amazon, looking for something that started with a "P" for a reading challenge. The premise sounded interesting -- three novellas written by three authors based on the same writing prompt. I thought it would be interesting to see where each author ran with the bone they were given. Well, rather than give a blanket review of the work in general, I'll tackle each novella in turn.

The first novella in the collection is "The Survivor" by Chisto Healy. I knew from the first few pages that this was going to be a slog. First off, and this is just a personal opinion, the character names don't fit the characters or their professions. Paulie Paisano and Sal "Guido" Corelli sound like they should be gangsters, so when you find out they're a pair of cops, you're like, "Huh?" Everything about them is un-coplike, and they come across as low-budget Keystone Cops. The author doesn't appear to have any knowledge of police procedures outside of the bad cop shows on TV, and the dialogue is laughably juvenile. Likewise, the interactions between Paulie and his wife. The whole thing is awkwardly written, and I mean that in a bad way, as if the author was uncomfortable writing the scene, not that the characters themselves were uncomfortable. Then there's the obvious lack of editing. It's the little things that make me want to grab a red pen and re-edit the piece -- things like allowing the use of ground when it's obvious floor is meant. It's things like that that really pull me out of the story. The character is sitting on the ground of the shower; I find that jarring enough because I'm suddenly picturing an outdoor shower.

And, unfortunately, that's as far as I got. It's rare for me to not finish a book that I start, but when you have a collection like this, the publisher would traditionally start off with the strongest work and end with a strong piece, and if "The Survivor" is the strongest story, then I can only imagine what the others are like. So slash this one off your shopping list and keep looking.

[DA · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this!!

I loved the unique concept of this book!Three authors. One story prompt. Three very different, very brutal novellas of a woman named Melissa.

Each author delivered a gruesome story not for the faint of heart. Each author let their voice be heard in their own special way.

The Survivor by Healy
A no holds barred old fashioned serial killer tale. One of the scenes will stick with me for a while. I won't describe it, you'll have to read the book. Let's just say it's not anything I've ever read before.

Nothing Is Hidden, Only Unseen by Collins What I thought was going to be your regular cosmic horror turned in an extreme cosmic horror, a neverending labrynthian nightmare that I never thought would end.

Those Baby Blues by Summers
A woman suffering with post partum psychosis listens to the colors around her. And sets off a chain reaction of brutality. I applaud Summers for wanting to feature an illness that I didn't even know existed.

One of the best parts of these three novellas is they feature a bisexual character. The authors thought it was about time for bisexuals to have more representation in horror fiction.

[Marie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thank you @slashichorrorpress for this short story collection. I loved it and loved how it was the same prompt, but three very different stories. The stories are bloody and graphic and the authors put trigger warnings on them, so make sure you check. I loved the grocery store used, Price Slashers, you could just feel the vibe and atmosphere of the store.

The prompt is Melissa runs out of the grocery store covered in blood. The Survivors deals with a serial killer that is on the loose. Only Unseen is cosmic horror that involves monsters and Those Baby Blues is about post partum psychosis. This was a wild ride for sure.

[WTF did I just Read Reviews · Rating 5 out of 5]

Three insanely talented authors
One Prompt
Three horrifying stories.

Y'all have to read this. All I can say is "holy hell! WTF did I just read?!"

[Emmy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bare with me, I have a lot to say, but first and foremost: Errica Summers, I have fallen madly in love with you and your writing <3333.

Price Slashers is a collection of novellas written by three different authors who all utilised the same prompt and parametres, and needed to include bi visibility. Each author was able to take the prompt in a very different direction which was interesting to see, but not all to the same level of quality.

The Survivor by Christo Healy - The weakest of the three. While I thought the story went in an interesting direction and had some depictions of extreme violence, the confines of a 20k novella did not help with the plot's realisation. I found that were were too many concidental occurances used to push the plot toward it's climax that made everything from the investigation to the reveal feel quite cheap. The dialogue was jarring and realied on far too much for janky exposition, for example the amount of times our main character has to remind everyone around him that he is in fact bisexual was mind numbing to the point where it didn't feel as sincere as intended. "Everyone hates me beacuse I'm bisexual", but actually our main character is a questionable person who makes even worse decisions, cheats on his wife and engages in inappropriate acts on the job... No mate, they don't hate you because of your sexuality, they hate you because you suck.

Nothing is Hidden, Only Unseen by Michael R. Collins - A step up from the previous entry. Again, liked the cosmic horror direction in which this author chose to lead his story, and there were some really fun scenes that mix body horror and sarcastic humor to carry you through the story's pages and pages of slaughter, this story still suffers similar issues with it's exposition, but to a lesser degree. I found again there was a jarring instance of our main charcter having to verbally remind us and the charcters that she is bisexual... but she does this after Collins already established this naturally through charcater contex?? Readers aren't supid, if you write a woman who is trying to avoid harassment from her ex boyfriend, while trying to maintain her relationship with her new girlfriend, people are going to understand. I did find the pacing a little uneven, and felt it relied on the cosmic horror aspect of the story to "hide it's faults" for lack of a better way to describe how I envisioned it, and it's because of this that I think again the word limit restrains Collins from a much more earned cosmic horror. Still really fun though!

Those Baby Blues by Erica Summers - Not without its faults but by far the most well earned of the three. I really enjoyed the direction Summers took this novell a in, and it was both fun and confronting to see her address the natural horrors of post partum symptoms in new mothers. The characters and dialogue in this novella felt so natural and flowed nicely from scene to scene, and I really enjoyed watching the chaos play out in such close quaters! Everything felt very intential and well-earned. My only issue is that I would love to see how this story would have played out if it weren't confined to just the prompt provided, as I'm confident we could have gotten a really terrifying depiction and exploration of the negative after-effects of childbirth on womens' mental health.

[Screams & Reviews · Rating 4 out of 5]

Holy moly! 3 horror books in one... This is like a horror girl's dream! And Glory as that. This book is also written by 3 different authors. So we see their sides of the story. You get a little something new with each of them.

Let's jump right into it!!!
Story#1 First you have Melissa, she is an upset girlfriend that is mad cause her boyfriend picked his son over her and wants revenge. And boy does she give it... I have to say she is Savage! I love the way this author described his kills from Melissa. Along with the background storyline is great. I love books that have a storyline behind them.

Story #2 This poor girl Just wants to go get cereal and milk cause she ran out & thinking she would help her girlfriend she runs to the store before it closes and she gets stuck in a monster realm inside the grocery store and needs to try to find her way out. This one was a little confusing until I figured out a little more into the store what was going on. At first I thought maybe it was a dream( which she as well thinks) but then it would always leed back to the grocery store.... It's like the monster keeps changing everything around on this poor girl why she is trying to figure everything out.

But this one was a fun time. You have talking heads, monster, gore, heads being cut off and tentacles going inside people.

Now to story 3 and I think I need to say it is my favorite!
Story #3 So they all go back to the grocery store. Starting to think this store is possessed with due to evil so much stuff happens wrong with it. But which I love that they all come together in some kind of way! A mother (Melissa ) that has postpartum depression decides she is going to go off The rocker in this store. This story isn't for the weak and as a mother myself it was hard to get through. Meeting with the author (online) and talking about this book itself she advised me that " this was the most gruesome story she has ever written." And I can see why! Poor Amanda, Melissa's sister tries to help her sister but isn't available to! This one is a crazy ride and loved every minute of it. It had myself saying " oh my God" " what the" " no she didn't" and much more. From start to finish the 2ish hours went by faster that I need more!!! 🤣

I feel like the whole time I am playing this book out in my head and watching a movie! 🍿 Which this need to be turned into a movie cause this book as some bad a$$ sense.

I am so glad I came a cross this book, and enjoyed it as much as I did. If you are interested as well I have posted the link below 👇🏼 It is also on KU if you have it.

https://books2read.com/b/bx9N8v

‼️‼️Please check your trigger warnings. If you do not like gory horror this is not the book for you‼️‼️

Happy reading....

[Milt Theo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Spoiler: The cover is the tamest and the sweetest part of this book! Incredibly, it starts with a seemingly harmless, horror prompt: a woman running out of a grocery store, her name is Melissa and she's covered in blood. Three stories follow, taking the prompt as is and each going into very different directions.

Chisto Healy's story, "The Survivor," paints Melissa as a serial killer's victim who's managed to escape her captor, running out of the Price Slashers store right into a pair of cops, one of whom turns to be the central character of Healy's story. It's gory, darkly funny, something of a hard-boiled tale, as the cop (demoted from a detective, due to some sexual indiscretions committed on the job) resolves to find the serial killer and understand what happened to poor Melissa. However, he gets more than he bargained for, when evidence shows that he's misjudged the situation. The story is entertaining, at times hilarious, with great banter and a cool understanding of bisexuality, another theme of the book. The plot is tightly focused on the case and its solution, so expect a detective/murder/mystery story; however, it's one given the Healy treatment, where the cure is often worse than the disease!

The second story, "Nothing is Hidden, Only Unseen" by Michael R. Collins, reads like The Mist meets The Backrooms: it's utter insanity, a cosmic horror type of story, demented like a Hieronymus Bosch painting, if Bosch painted grocery stores. It's essentially a fast-paced, game-like meditation on reality collapse, and Melissa is the poor victim in the middle of it. Collins' story has to be experienced to be appreciated properly!

The last story, my favorite, is Erica Summers' "Those Baby Blues," and comes with a lot of warnings. It's graphic, extreme, gruesome, brutal, and bloody. It's also terrific: excellent writing, stunning imagery, a tale bold in conception and boundary-crossing in theme and execution. It's about motherhood and psychosis. I had no idea that, after childbirth, mothers may develop, not only postpartum depression ("baby blues"), but also postpartum psychosis. In Summers' story, typical maternal behavior transforms into the monstrous version of this severest form of mental illness: Melissa and her newborn baby, under the supervision of her sister, visit the Price Slashers store, where Melissa's connection with reality, already highly stressed, is finally broken. What follows is extremely upsetting, extremely repulsive, extremely gory... extremely EVERYTHING! Summers knows exactly which buttons to push and she goes for it with glee. I loved this story, and would recommend it to everyone who's been wondering what good extreme horror is about. At the very least, you'll be apprised of an important, though not so well-known, medical condition.

Three chapters of three different kinds of horror, extremely intense and disturbing; read this filth and despair!

[Petri · Rating 3 out of 5]

Three author's are given the same prompt "Melissa comes running out of a grocery store covered in blood..." and we get three different novellas. Absolutely loved the concept of this, even though I did find the end result little bit disappointing.

The Survivor is serial killer mystery told from the POV of a police and I personally generally don't enjoy police main characters. There was some nice moments, but out of the tree stories in this book this felt like the one that would have benefitted by being a longer stand alone novel. The ending felt way too fast for me and some of the twists would have needed more setting time to feel believable.

Nothing is Hidden, Only unseen is a surreal more of a cosmic horror take on the prompt. It was fine I just need time to actually take it in.

Those Baby Blues is in my opinion the best novella out of the three. New mother is suffering from a post partum psychosis and things get very gruesome. Even though this was splatterpunk, that isn't usually my favorite, this one had so many interesting and colorful characters that were given enough introduction for me to actually care about them. Extremely gruesome but also entertaining.

Overall I enjoyed my time reading book.

[Emy Lynn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Three horror authors get the same prompt: Melissa comes running out of grocery store covered in blood…
The first story was a sort of like a murder mystery? But I just remember it as the cool gay cop story… The detective that was demoted for hooking up with his coworker ends up solving the case! Yippee. It was pretty awesome and I liked the ending.
Second story describes Melissa as stopping at Price Slashers to buy her gf some cereal but instead ends up wandering around a labyrinth through the milk cooler, guided by the demonic severed head of her ex-boyfriend? Or something? I’m not sure. It was my least favorite.
Third story was by far the best. It was absolutely gut-wrenching, but brilliant. In this one Melissa is a new mom suffering from postpartum psychosis, and she ends up killing her baby in the grocery store, as well as a few other customers… It was disgustingly gruesome, but definitely the most interesting of the three. I liked how Melissa was the perpetrator this time, not the victim or protagonist.
It’s cool how these three authors had completely different ideas for the same prompt. I also really appreciate the LBGT representation in all three stories. I really want to read more anthologies like this one!

[Shasta · Rating 4 out of 5]

Price Slashers

I love prompt books (short stories, whatever we call them). This one is
“Girl runs out of grocery store covered in blood”
This is where the authors get to shine and show us their unique imaginations.
This is such a fun way to read. Each story was so incredibly different while carrying out that prompt and a subtle lgbt theme.

The Survivor by Chisto Healy
My favorite of the bunch. Like a seriously graphic csi episode. Bloody & slightly humorous.

Nothing is Hidden, Only Unseen by Michael R Collin’s Mick Collins
Who doesn’t love a story written about home? I loved that the author mentioned a lot of our lesser known towns. He’s been here before 100%
This one was a freekin fever dream and a half. Dark and depraved. Weird, and I never quite knew what was going to happen next.

Those Baby Blues
By Erica Summers
Incredibly descriptive and brutal. A little sad. I really enjoyed this one, because it took on the actual classic everyday grocery store as the setting. Not for the faint of heart, that’s your only warning.

Thanks authors for this fun read. Also props to the cover designer. I love it!

[Sea Caummisar · Rating 4 out of 5]

Three novellas by three authors....
I was given a review copy, which I was excited about because I love extreme horror.
The author notes at the end explained deeper into the idea of the book.
One writing prompt. A woman running out of a grocery store. The end even explained the woman's name and appearance would be uniform across the three stories, even though all stories were all different in their own way. Also, the store workers and their clothing, etc (minor yet important details) would be the same across the three tales, which gave each story a familiar feeling.
Also, there were bisexual themes, which its true that doesn't appear too frequently in horror fiction.
The first story was a cop/detective murder mystery type.
The second, not quite bizarro, but close.
And the third was my fave. About a woman and her baby. It pushed some boundaries that extreme horror is known for, and I'm sure it would make many readers uncomfortable (which is the point of horror fiction, right?) the author note about that one actually broke my heart, but made me love the story even more

[C.M. Guidroz · Rating 4 out of 5]

This collection of stories was so much fun. I did laugh at Erica Summer's note saying there was a small miscommunication which explained why in the first story you get a dark criminal minds vibe, the second story is just The Mist on acid, and then when you get to her story it's straight infanticide.

With that being said, Those Baby Blues was my absolute favorite. This story could have been a whole book by itself, it was so good. The fact that this was written with the intention of putting the reader in the mindset of a person dealing with Post Pardum Psychosis was so gut-wrenching and heartbreaking. She handled a very dark and brutal subject matter like the professional she is and the payoff was a brutal, edge of your seat, banger of a story. My anxiety was so elevated when Melissa was loose in the store.

One thing I can confidently say is that if I am ever in a dangerous situation down the frozen food aisle, I will remember this story and I'm smoking the person with a frozen lasagna.

Great job to all the authors, this was awesome.

[Cat Voleur · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was such an absolute blast.

I loved seeing how the prompt inspired three entirely different stories that ranged in subgenre and style.

While I don't think I was necessarily the audience for all three of the stories, each one had aspects that I was drawn to. The first entry had some intense gore and some of the coolest kills I've ever seen in a book, while also providing lots of twists and turns. The second had such beautiful prose, and I think the most unique response to the prompt. The third was maybe my favorite just because it wasn't for the faint of heart, and was definitely the sort of story I had in mind for an extreme collection.

This is one I'd highly recommend for someone wanting to dip their toes into darker horror reads and or the fine offerings of Slashic Horror Press. I was so happy to get a review copy and I can't wait to read more from all three of the featured authors.

[Ian Gielen · Rating 5 out of 5]

A collection of three novella's, each one working off the same prompt, a girl running out of a grocery store covered in blood.

To say each of these tales differ from each other is an understatement, one offering a detective story, one an extreme cosmic horror story and another focusing on a lady with mental illness that leads her down a path that is truly shocking.

It is a fantastic collection and really showcases what these talented authors can do with just a simple prompt. It is not a book for the faint of heart, the last one in particular I wouldn't recommend unless you are an extreme/splatterpunk reader but it treats its subject matter with respect and highlights what the mental issue in question could possibly lead one too.

At the end of the three stories, each author lends a bit of a backstory to their experience with writing their stories which gives you an insight as to how and why they wrote the stories they way they did which is pretty cool.

Read it if you're a fan of extreme/splatterpunk. It's one you don't want to miss if you are.

[Angel Medina · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have a love for retail horror and feel there isn't enough of it. When I saw the cover for Price Slashers, I was intrigued. What I didn't know was that I was in for quite the read. All three stories were great and I don't say that lightly. My itch for retail horror was scratched.

However, I will say the final story, The Baby Blues was the most gruesome. It's not for the faint of heart and it seems to end on a cliffhanger, leaving me wanting more. At the end of the book, the authors put in their inspiration for their stories, which was a great personal touch.

Overall, I enjoyed my time in the Price Slashers universe. A part of me hopes there'll be more stories set in this kind of setting. I loved this book.

[Krystal · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think it was such a fantastic idea to give 3 authors the same prompt to see what they come up with. They all came up with such fascinating stories and it’s so cool to see different stories out of the same prompt. I was on the edge of my seat since the first page, wondering where these stories could go and I was not disappointed! You all definitely have to give this book a read. I could not put it down.

[Rachal Davis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely loved this concept.
One prompt about a woman named Melissa who is running out of a grocery store called Price Slashers and covered in blood equals
three stories about Price Slashers, Melissa and Bisexuality and is written by three different authors in their own unique style, a hardcore horror full of twist, a horrific fever dream and splatterpunk.

[Tara Prince · Rating 4 out of 5]

Loved this three for one story. Be aware that this book is full of gore. That definitely added to the stories for me but it may be too much for others. Check those triggers. All three stories were highly entertaining but the second one was my favorite. I really enjoyed the idea of the promt and the different ways the authors told their versions.

[Stephen Cooper · Rating 4 out of 5]

Three Stories all with the same prompt but all go in very different directions. One hard-boiled gore, another trippy as hell, and the third the most disgusting vile violent awesome thing I've read so far this year.

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Arc review
Got this as an early copy from slashtastic horror. 3 short stories with the same writing prompt. The stories were very well written. Personally, my favorite is the second story. Definitely recommend

[Andrea Stott · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very messed up

I liked all of the stories but I am a splatterpunk girl so Erica Summers story was just brutal. If you can take the gore it's so worth it.

[Kimberly Nicole · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow!! This book was done so well! Absolutely LOVED it!! What a great team of writers!

[Jenny · Rating 3 out of 5]

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